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TONGUE-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,024, dated January20, 1891.

Application filed September 3, 1890- Serial No. 363.872- (No model) TocoZZ whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, JOHN WM. LINDQUIST a subject of the King of Sweden,residing at Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vagoir'longue Supports,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to wagon-tongue supports or devices forsupporting the outer or free end of such tongues in an elevated positionwhen the draft-animals are connected with or disconnected from thewagon.

The object of my improvement is to produce a tongue-support which issimple in construction, cheap, durable, which cannot get out of formwith any ordinary use, is made from a single piece of steel, and whichcan be readily, quickly, and easily applied to or removed from a wagon;and the improvement consists in a single bar of steel bentat itsmid-length part to form a U-shaped loop upon which the tongue may rest,while the ends of the rod rest beneath the axle and further bent betweenits ends and mid-length portion to form hooks which engage with the rodon which the tongue is pivoted and on which it swings vertically.

The improvement further consists in other constructions and combinationshereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawingsI have shown my improvement, together withsuch of the front parts of an ordinary wagon runninggear as willillustrate what I consider the best way of constructing and applying itto a wagon and as will illustrate the principle on which my improvementoperates.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan of parts of a frontrunning-gear of a wagon and of my improved tongue-support appliedthereto; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation of parts of the wagonrunning-gear, a side elevation of other parts, and a side elevation ofthe tongue-support in place; Fig. 3, a similar elevation and section toFig. 2, but showing a different adjustment of the adj ustment-block fromthat shown at Fig. 2; Figsr 4 and 5, side elevation and plan,respectively,-of the adj Listing-block; Fig. 6, a perspective of thetongue-support alone.

The parts of the wagon shown are of ordinary construction and need notbe further described than to recite that Ais a front axle with the fixedbolster Z) above it and the hounds c secured thereto, and is supportedon wheels (I.

E is the tongue, and is pivoted as ordinarily to the hounds c by a rodorboltf, on which the tongue swings in a vertical plane.

G is the coupling-pole, pivoted bythe kingbolt 9 to the axle andbolster, and is shown partly broken away.

My improved tongue-support II is formed of a single bar II of steehwhichis bent at its mid-length portion to form a loop h of U- shaped form.Each side bar 7L of this U- shaped loop is again bent to form a hook7L2, from which hooks the respective ends ha of the bar IIextendrearward ly, and preferably with an increase in distance between them ordiverging, as shown. This ton goo-support can be applied to a wagon bysimply elevating the tongue and then engaging the hooks 71 with thetongue rod or boltf, while the arms or ends 7L3 rest beneath the axle,and the connecting-bar h of the loop it rests beneath the tongue to holdit at any desired elevation, as mav be controlled in an evident mannerby different construction or bends of the sides of the support. Thesupport can be as readily removed from the wagon as itwas placedthereon, simply by first elevating the free end of the tongue slightlyand then disengaging the hooks ]L2 from the rod or bolt f. It will beevident that this feature in my improvement is of importance, in that itprovides for readily and quickly putting the tongue-support in place,and also for removing it without having to withdraw or remove the tonguepivot bolt or rod g.

To furnish means for adjusting and holding the tongue at differentelevations or inclinat-ions without changing the form or structure ofthe support I1, I have provided a wedge-shaped adjusting-block I, havinga series of transverse grooves t' and a plate 3', which can be fixed tothe block I by screws j to hold said plate to the block and the blockupon the bar h* of the support 1].. It will be evident that as the blockI is adjusted with its thicker end over the bar 7& the tongue will beadjusted and held in a higher position at its front end, and vice versa.By in IOO verting the block I, as shown at Fig. 3, another adjustment ofthe tongue will effected. The block I will not only serve the purpose ofadjusting and holding the tongue at different same time most effective.The union between the bars 72" and 7L may be angles or curves, aspreferred.

It will be evident that the support H can be used without theadjusting-block I. Hence I do not limit my claims in which saidadjusting-block is not recited to such adjustingblock as a part in thecombination forming the subject-matter of such claims.

Having thus described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. A wagon-tongue support composed of a single bar bent at itsmid-length partinto U- shaped form, and each of its end portions againbent to form open hooks, which hooks can be readily engaged with anddisengaged from the rod or bolt on which the wagontongue is pivotedwithout removing said rod or bolt, while the connecting-bar of the U-shaped part rests beneath the tongue and the end parts beneath the axle,substantially as described.

A wagon-tongue support composed of a single bar bent at its mid-lengthpart into U- shaped form, and each of its end portions again bent toform hooks, which hooks engage with the rod or bolt on which theWagontongue is pivoted, while the connecting-bar of the U-shaped partrests beneath the tongue and the end parts beneath the axle, and aninvertible Wedge-shaped ad justing-b ock having transverse grooveslocated between the tongue and the mid-length part of the support,substantially as and 'for the purpose specified.

3. A wagontongue support composed of a single bar bent at its mid-lengthpart into U- shaped form, each side bar 72/ of which is again bent toform a hook k which hooks engage with the bar or boltf, While its armsor ends 7L3 rest beneath the axle and the bar h of the loop it restsbeneath thetongue, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN \VM. LINDQUIST,

Witnesses:

H. W. CARPENTER, H. M, RICHARDS.

